Time To Get Smarter About Lay-offs
News Making lay-offs match a pattern derived from abstract assumptions or measurements is an arbitrary and unthinking habit. These are the questions that every technology company considering lay-offs needs to ask itself before taking action:
[October 22, 2001, 14:34]
Worried CIOs - Lose Sleep Over Storage And Redundancy
News About twice as many were 'not at all confident' or 'not confident' versus those saying they were 'confident' or 'very confident' about not seeing any more lay-offs in their organisations over the next two years.
[February 28, 2003, 18:17]
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[July 2, 2008, 13:16]
Portal Woes Kick In
News But companies that divulge sizeable write-offs are usually signaling something more troublesome in their businesses. The round of write-offs begs the question of whether other companies will have to write off assets as well.
[January 31, 2001, 12:27]
AltaVista Job Cuts Won't Hit UK
News Struggling Web portal AltaVista will announce lay offs Friday in an effort to revitalise the company. The layoffs will mark the second round of staff cuts for the company in five months, indicating the difficulties hundreds of Web portals are...
[September 15, 2000, 12:36]
The Future's Bright... But Not For Orange
News Mobile phone giant Orange has announced that it expects to beat its expectations, but soured the news with talk of continued lay offs as it looks to further reduce costs. The company announced plans to axe 1,800 staff across Europe, with the bulk...
[December 5, 2002, 14:48]
Netscape Pain Could Mean Free Communicator
News Netscape last night announced a less than hearty welcome to the New Year, saying it expected heavy losses for its fourth quarter at the end of this month, and announcing lay-offs and other restructuring plans.
[January 6, 1998, 10:01]
Troubled Marconi Trims Yet More Jobs
News He added that the troubled telecoms group is hoping to secure the 1,000 job cuts through voluntary redundancies, although compulsory lay-offs cannot be ruled out. Marconi, which has cut half its workforce in the last two years to a current level of...
[August 9, 2002, 11:27]
MP3.com Wavers On Brink
News Recent lay-offs at the company appeared to offer a warning of worse to come. Another former favourite of online-music fans looks set for the scrapheap -- MP3.com appears to be on the brink of closure.
[July 11, 2003, 13:43]
Cable And Wireless On The Ropes?
News Today's FT cites sources close to CEO Graham Wallace saying the top executive is aware of the mounting pressure to cut costs further - if possible - by making more lay-offs or disposing of assets, potentially in the US.
[October 28, 2002, 16:40]
Ericsson Yanks Bluetooth Development
News There are no lay-offs planned. Ericsson, inventor and chief proponent of Bluetooth, has closed its technology licensing unit and ceased chip and protocol development on the standard, according to a report in industry newspaper EETimes.
[August 27, 2004, 17:30]
Adobe: "We Are Not For Sale"
News The financial world doesn't like it when a company issues a warning or discusses lay-offs. In an interview with ZDNet UK News, Adobe UK MD Alaisdair Boyle says the company may be going through some irksome changes but is in no mood to be...
[August 26, 1998, 16:58]
Legal Action Threatens Shell's Outsourcing Plans
News As well as securing better payouts for any immediate lay-offs, this would mean those IT workers who are transferred from Shell to the outsourcing companies will be guaranteed the higher pay-out should their new employers decide to make them...
[January 8, 2008, 7:53]
A Year Ago: Adobe: "We Are Not For Sale"
News The financial world doesn't like it when a company issues a warning or discusses lay-offs. Creative software giant Adobe has reacted sternly to the advances of the relative minnow Quark, which last week attempted to buy a stake in the firm.
[August 26, 1999, 7:00]
Siebel Employees Face Nervous Wait
News Stimson, meanwhile, predicted in his research note that he anticipates Oracle to "immediately execute a round of lay-offs" in Siebel's administrative and back office areas. With the megamerger between Oracle and Siebel closed, Wall Street analysts...
[February 9, 2006, 10:05]
IT Reliance Key To Disaster Recovery Planning
News Once this had been done the IT manager could present a portfolio of solutions which provided a range of trade-offs between risk and cost. Kevin McIsaac, programme director of server infrastructure strategies at industry analyst META Group, said...
[August 13, 2002, 10:21]
